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| Oct 27 6:00 PM |
Westfields Marriott
Chantilly, VA, 20151 |
65 Yes |
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| Oct 15 6:30 PM |
88 attended (est.) –
Session-Level: Intermediate Information Indexing and Search: Lucene 3.0 This presentation is aimed at people new to Lucene in general and existing Lucene users interested in Lucene 3.0. The presentation will give an overview of what Lucene is, where and how it can be used. We'll cover the basic Lucene concepts (index, Directory, Document, Field, Term), text analysis (tokenizing, token filtering, stop words, stemming), indexing (how to create an index, how to index documents), and searching (query syntax, how to run keyword, phrase, boolean and other queries). We'll peek at Lucene indices with Luke, a powerful desktop app for working with Lucene indices. Speaker: Semantic Web Programming Applications bring the Semantic Web alive - revealing its value. Using open source tools and useful examples, we demonstrate practical methods to exercise the Semantic Web based upon on our Wiley book, "Semantic Web Programming". We open with a "Hello Semantic Web World" application that outlines the key components to a Semantic Web application, quickly moving on to our "FriendTacker" Speaker: John Hebeler John Hebeler is an avid explorer of new technologies for the development of large-scale, distributed systems. In the last five years, he has focused on the Semantic Web and emergent, distributed systems. He has published published papers, has co-written a P2P networking book, and presents at major technical conferences around the world. He is currently pursing his PhD in Information Systems at the University of Maryland. He is a division scientist for BBN technologies. Cost: $10.00 |
Sun Microsystems
New York, NY, 10016 |
111 Yes |
| Oct 1 6:30 PM |
35 attended (est.) –
Session-Level: Beginner-Intermediat Cambridge Semantics goal is to solve today’s business problems with Semantic Technologies. From its inception in 2007, Cambridge Semantics Inc. has been focused on providing practical solutions for today’s business problems using the most advanced semantic technology. While the technology is sophisticated, the approach is simple and immediately useful: make any data accessible to and consumable by any application that needs it. For the enterprise, semantic technology offers a paradigm shift that will impact businesses on the same scale as the introduction of the personal computer or the advent of the internet. Semantic technology can put power in the hands of every day users that was previously the exclusive domain of IT, creating dramatic improvements in efficiency and responsiveness that can change the game for many businesses. In order to realize this potential, semantic technology must be delivered in a lightweight package that allows for rapid realization of value that can scale throughout the enterprise. Further, the ability to build solutions must be well within the reach of non-technical users without the assistance of IT if desired. This session will show actual examples of how semantic technology has been deployed in just such a way, going from initial installation to enterprise-wide production deployment in a matter of days for the largest buyer of advertizing media in the world. In the context of this solution, you will see how spreadsheets are easily linked to a semantic data collaboration server and how data from those spreadsheets can be manipulated and browsed in a Web visualization tool. What’s coming with SPARQL 2 – Lee Feigenbaum Since 2004 and its standardization at the beginning of last year, SPARQL has found a role as a key W3C Semantic Web standard for building applications that consume semantic data. There are over 30 SPARQL implementations available and it's rare to find a single Semantic Web application today that doesn't make heavy use of SPARQL. But SPARQL is incomplete, and since earlier this year a new W3C Working Group has been chartered to fill many of the gaps in the SPARQL landscape. In this talk, Lee Feigenbaum, Co-chair of the SPARQL Working Group, will give a brief introduction to SPARQL, and will then focus on what's coming in SPARQL 2. Come learn what's on tap for features like SPARQL/Update, aggregates, SPARQL service description, federated query, SPARQL & OWL, and more. Mike Cataldo is the CEO of Cambridge Semantics, a leader in providing the most advanced and most practical semantic solutions. Prior to becoming CEO of Cambridge Semantics, Mike was a private investor and management consultant focused early stage companies. In 1997 Mike founded and served as CEO of, MediVation, Inc., which developed the first ePPi (Electronic Provider Patient Interface) an internet-based solution that allowed doctors to connect to their own patients. After becoming the dominant player in the space, Mike sold the company to McKesson Corporation in 2000. Prior to MediVation, Mike served as the general manager of Optika Imaging's healthcare division and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for STC Corporation whose DataGate product became the de facto standard for healthcare integration technology. In his early career, Mike held various management, marketing and sales positions at IBAX Healthcare Systems, Shared Medical Systems and Cable and Wireless. Mike graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics in 1983. Lee Feigenbaum uses Semantic Web technologies to architect and develop enterprise middleware and applications since 2003. He brings his expertise to his role as Cambridge Semantics's VP of Technology and Standards, where he is responsible for the design and development of the SHAPE Middleware Platform for building enterprise semantic applications. Lee also contributes to the Open Anzo project, an open-source enterprise RDF store and middleware platform. He is the author of Glitter, a pluggable SPARQL engine designed to query multiple data sources. Lee is Chair of the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group, publishing the SPARQL query language and protocol specifications. Lee co-authored "The Semantic Web in Action," a December 2007 article in Scientific American. Before joining Cambridge Semantics, Lee spent five years as an engineer with IBM's Advanced Internet Technology Group. There, his experiences spanned knowledge management and annotation systems, instant-messaging software, and Web-based client application run-times. http://www.thefigtre Links Cambridge Semantics http://www.cambridge Cost: $10.00 |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, |
38 Yes |
| Sep 17 6:30 PM |
60 attended (est.) –
Session-Level: Intermediate-Advance Meetup with Chris Welty and discover Rules for the Semantic Web. The RIF rules standard is nearing completion as a formal W3C recommendation and various communities are beginning to implement tools that support it. In this talk Chris will introduce RIF, its design and goals, and discuss its potential uses on the semantic web. Speaker: Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications. Note: Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, did a good job in describing the efforts of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group as follows: "The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) is an activity within the World Wide Web Consortium aimed at developing a Web standard for exchanging rules. The need for rule-based information processing on the Semantic Web has been felt ever since RDF was introduced in the late 90’s. As ontology development picked up pace this decade and as the limitations of OWL became apparent, rules were firmly put back on the agenda. RIF is therefore a major opportunity for the introduction of rule based technologies into the main stream of knowledge representation and information processing on the Web. Despite its humble name, RIF is not just a format and is not primarily about syntax. It is an extensible framework for rule-based languages, called RIF dialects, which includes precise and formal specification of the syntax, semantics, and XML serialization. In this paper we will discuss the main principles behind RIF, introduce the RIF extensibility framework, and outline the Basic Logic Dialect—the only fully developed RIF dialect so far." http://www.springerl Cost: $10.00 |
Daylife
New York, NY, 10013 |
59 Yes |
| Aug 27 6:30 PM |
80 attended (est.) –
Welcome back to your New York Semantic Web Meetup. We will kick off the event calendar with Metaweb and a presentation about "Content, Identifiers and Freebase". Freebase is a community managed database for knowledge about the world. Information in Freebase is organized as a web of facts, which can be systematically retrieved. Thus it is possible to discover that there are republican politicians who have appeared in films and who have received contributions from Boeing (yes, there is more than one!) http://www.freebase. As a large, strongly connected corpus of information made available under a liberal Creative Commons license, Freebase is a useful asset for content publishers and application developers alike. Individuals and groups using Freebase can not only add facts to the database, but they can extend the data model to meet their needs, allowing the data within Freebase span a diverse range of subject matter- covering everything from Jeans to Genes. This presentation will provide a short overview of how content is organized within Freebase, briefly describe some of the services provided by the system and discuss some of the ways Freebase can be used to enhance existing CMS and other applications. The talk will also identify how Freebase can be used as general semantic publishing platform, serving as a rich source of vocabulary, a very large collection of strong identifiers and a simple way to publish Linked Open Data. In addition Jamie will also briefly introduce us to their new and recently published book "Programming the Semantic Web" http://www.amazon.co Speakers: Jamie Taylor While developing an Internet laboratory for studying economic equilibria, Jamie started one of the first ISPs in San Francisco so he could get a better connection at home. He finally got a real job as CTO at DETERMINE Software (now a part of Selectica) helping create order in the unstructured world of Enterprise contract management. He is now helping to organize the world’s structured information at Metaweb where he oversees data operations. Robert Cook Robert co-founded Metaweb Technologies in July 2005. At parent company Applied Minds, Robert led the San Francisco office as Director of Knowledge Product Development. Since the start of his career, Robert has played the role of author, designer and programmer for myriad software applications. Robert’s first computer was an Elf II, which used the same microprocessor as the Voyager, Viking and Galileo spacecraft. At the young age of 15, Robert created database software for a small publishing company. He followed this first piece of work by publishing a number of computer games through Broderbund. This early work included the classic game Gumball as well as the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64 versions of Karateka. Robert later designed the game D/Generation and acted as the technical director for The Last Express. Robert holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University. Cost: $10.00 |
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87 Yes |
| Jul 25 9:30 AM |
25 attended (est.) –
VoCamp is an informal event where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontolog This is a two day session! Hampton Inn Manhattan-Chelsea Wyndham Garden Hotel - Manhattan Chelsea West If you come from out of town and you are on a budget and you don't mind a dormitory the Chelsea Star Hotel might offer just the right deal for you: 29.99 a night! Cost: $20.00 |
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25 Yes |
| Jun 15 6:00 PM |
120 attended (est.) –
This will be the global meetup event at the Semantic technology Conference in San Jose. http://www.semantic- Special Guest Benjamin Grosof Jeffrey T. Pollock |
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20 Yes |
| Jun 4 6:30 PM |
135 attended (est.) –
Details: http://www.swnyc.org Session Type: Panel-Business-Techn Semantic Advertising is the application of semantic technologies to advertising solutions. The goal is to semantically analyze and classify online content for targeted advertising and to exploit Semantic Web technologies for inventory management and advanced matching. In this session of the New York Semantic Web Meetup we will take a look at and discuss the foundation and the future application of semantic technologies in the advertisement industry. A panel of experts will discuss with you what's involved, how you can adopt the technology early and how you can benefit from improved semantic matching in advertisement. Panel Moderators Mills Davis, Managing Director, Project10X Panel Members Sacha Carton, Director of the Board, ad pepper media Organizer Marco Neumann, KONA Cost: $10.00 |
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122 Yes |
| May 21 6:30 PM |
57 attended (est.) –
Please find details here: http://www.swnyc.org Session-Topic: technology-framework PHP and Semantic Web: Easy RDF and SPARQL for LAMP systems Semantic technologies and standards are maturing and start to spread from research prototypes and enterprise tools to public web sites and mainstream online applications. With scripting languages traditionally being popular in the web developer community, the demand for PHP coders with RDF skills is about to rise significantly. Now is a good time to explore the new possibilities of the forthcoming Data Web and how they can be efficiently utilized in LAMP environments. This talk will provide an overview of SPARQL-based web scripting with ARC and Trice, market opportunities for PHP developers, available toolkits, and lessons learned. Meetup with the developer of ARC and Trice: Benjamin Nowack. Benjamin is a long-time member of the RDF community, founder of semantic web company Semsol, and a pioneer in utilizing RDF technology for agency-level web projects. He is the maintainer of ARC (a pure PHP/MySQL RDF toolkit) and Trice (a web application framework based on ARC). Semsol's practical solutions won several international awards, such as the Semantic Scripting Challenge and the Semantic Web Challenge. Benjamin contributed to the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group (SWEO) as an Invited Expert. A detailed profile is available at http://bnode.org/abo Reasoning on the web of linked data with OWLIM - Semantic Repository OWLIM is a native RDF database with inference support. Short after its first release in 2004, it started setting performance and scalability benchmarks that advanced the frontiers for semantic repositories. Nowadays OWLIM is a mature database, proven in applications ranging from life sciences to financial intelligence and patent search. It can deal with 1B statements on a desktop and 10B statements on a sub-$10,000 server. Atanas Kiryakov CEO Ontotext Cost: $10.00 |
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57 Yes |
| May 7 6:00 PM |
101 attended (est.) –
For further details please look here: Semantic Web related activities at the Digital Experience Group of the New York Public Library Linking Library Data - Standards and Vocabularies evolving to fit the web Library data has spent the first decades of the Web trapped in silos, partly due to the use of outdated and esoteric standards for data storage and transmission. The vast stores of quality bibliographic data and other library metadata cordoned off in library specific systems present a compelling resource to enrich the emerging web of data coming out of the SemWeb and LOD communities. This data, along with myriad controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification schemes developed by libraries over the years, has the potential to join DBPedia as the hub of the Linked Data Cloud. The presentation will discuss various experiments and standards development efforts in the library community toward realizing this goal. Semantic Web activities at the Library of Congress & Library of Congress Subject Headings available in SKOS LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data & more Updates on SeMuSe the future of Semantic Museum Data Knoodl.com Knoodl supplies the market with a web-based, semantic information management platform. It fully embraces many web 2.0/3.0 concepts such as semantics, collaboration, distributed data, distributed people, and cloud computing. Currently, Knoodl facilitates community-oriented development of OWL based ontologies and RDF knowledgebases and offers a JAVA service-based interface or a SPARQL-based interface so that communities can build their own semantic applications using their ontologies and knowledgebases. The presentation will describe the full vision behind the creation of Knoodl, Knoodl's current state, and the road map for Knoodl's future development. Revelytix Mike Lang Jr. has 2 years of experience working for a semantic technology company (Revelytix) where he is Lead Ontologist and Product Manager. He is a semantic technology expert and has a deep understanding of web-based software architecture. Mike graduated from the University of Maryland - College Park with a BS in Mathematics. He is the son of the founder of Revelytix, Mike Lang Sr. Cost: $10.00 |
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